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John Regazzi has been called a "pioneer" and "true innovator" of the information industry with a career spanning more than 35 years. He has worked in corporate, government, and academic settings and has addressed industry groups around the world.

John' s career began at the H.W.Wilson company where he was the first to bring a publisher online with their own distribution services, successfully challenging the then current aggregation services such as Dialog Information Services. He then helped launch the content CDROM industry, creating the first commercially available CDROM text database, and provided the keynote address at Microsoft's first CDROM conference. As CEO of Ei Inc., John then launched the first professional online community, the Engineering Information Village, which is still the largest professional service on the net for engineers. In 1999 John became the CEO of Elsevier Inc. (NYSE: ENL) and was also responsible for their electronic publishing portfolio with a program totaling a staff of 3,000, revenues in excess of $1billion, and some of the most ground-breaking net-based services for the professional science, technology, and medical communities, including Science Direct, Scirus, Scopus, and Medical Consult.

John retired from Elsevier in 2005 and assumed the role of Dean of the College of Information and Computer Science of Long Island University. He now is Professor and Director of the Scholarly Communications and Information Innovation Lab at LIU. In his academic role, John continues to work with academic and professional groups, and has been invited to participate in the U.S. Department of State Expert Speakers Program, and has undertaken lectures in Turkey in 2007, and in Germany in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Last year John lectured at the Polytechnic University of Valencia , and has been invited to deliver a series of additional lectures in 2012 and 2013 to the university and selected IT professional associations in Spain.

John continues to be active in the industry as well. He currently serves of the Board of Directors of: the British Standards Institute, BSI Group (a UK Royal Charter Company), Collexis (a semantic search company), the American Institute of Physics (AIP a non-profit professional society), the Elsevier Foundation, the Ei Foundation, and most recently John was appointed by U.S Department of Commerce Secretary as Chairman of the Advisory Board, National Technical Information Service (NTIS).

Over his career John has previously served on a wide range of industry associations at the board or senior levels in the organizations including Association of American Publishers, American Library Association, Information Industry Association, Software & Information Industry of America, International Federation of Library Associations, and was presented the Miles Conrad Award from the National Federation of Access and Information Services.

"Online systems of disciplines and specialty areas in science and technology" (with Bruce Bennion and Susan Roberts) Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) 31 (3) May 1980, 161-170.

"Constrained? – An analysis of U.S. academic libraries and shifts in spending, staffing and utilization, 1998 – 2008". College and Research Libraries, (accepted for publication), July 2012.Recent Papers, Presentations and Interviews

"Electronic Publishing Trends in the Scholarly and Professional Communities", sponsored by the University of Valencia Spain -- a series of lectures for the university and related professional organizations, May 9 – 13, 2011.

U.S. Department of State Expert Speakers Program -- during the summers of2008, 2009 and 2010, gave a series of lectures at universities, business and professional groups in Stuttgart, Leipzig, Berlin, Karlsruhe, and Munich. 2008 - 2010

Guest Lecture: "The merging of library and publishing services", Library, Information and Media Faculties, University of Berlin, June 2008

U.S. Department of State Expert Speakers Program -- during June 2007 gave a series of lectures at universities, business and professional groups in Istanbul and Ankara, including the American Embassy in Ankara.

Keynote Speech: "The changing face of electronic services", First International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, Ankara, Turkey, June 2007